February 16, 2011 - BAFTA has announced the nominations for the 2011 GAME British Academy Video Game Awards, and it's Treyarch's Call of Duty: Black Ops and Ubisoft Montreal's Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood that have been given the most nods.

January 12, 2011 - Nominations this year are led by indie developer Playdead's Xbox Live Arcade hit Limbo. The evocative monochrome puzzle platformer, which was winner of last year's Independent Game Festival Awards for Visual Art and Technical Excellence, received seven nominations in all, including one for Game of the Year.

January 10, 2011 - Good morning campers! It's Monday and that means it's time to hoist up your underpants and throw back the curtains on another scintillating glance at the UK Chart Track All-format Video Games Top 20.

January 4, 2011 - As we settle into 2011 with fresh-faced enthusiasm, it's time to cast one last dirty glare in the general direction of last year's gaming dregs with a backward glance at the Chart Track all-format full-price UK video games charts, wrapping up on January 1, 2011.

December 13, 2010 - As the UK readies itself for a Christmas of asinine warbling on the music front, courtesy of X-Factor, we can all breathe easy in the knowledge that there's still one more week before the Chart Track UK video games charts are finally set in stone for the festive period.

December 3, 2010 - So long 2010, you funny old year for gaming. You've given us some genuine classics, the occasional disappointment and the usual deluge of so-sos and also-rans. Never mind those, however, 2010's also offered its fair share of surprises.

October 5, 2010 - We've discovered the foundational rules guiding Ezio's life in Rome, and they're hot off the stone tablets. Spoiler alert: a lot of them are about driving spikes through the necks of your enemies.

August 5, 2010 - Fans looking to get into the Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood multiplayer beta next month will have to pre-order the game at GameStop, Ubisoft announced. As announced at E3, the beta is exclusive to PlayStation 3 owners.